'At 40,single & childless,I moved abroad&haven't stopped traveling since-building a life I love. I realized something more sobering: the chosen families&vibrant friendships I've built abroad may not be the ones at my side when it's time for me to pass on' africa.businessinsider.com/news/i-chose-t…

De-shaming your wounds...

vice.com/en/article/res… 'People who initiate breakups tend to start emotionally detaching long before their partners catch on. The recipient, meanwhile, often stays relatively content until it all implodes. That’s why getting dumped can feel like a blindsiding gut punch.'

'It was created during a moment of serendipity,when Hermès executive Jean-Louis Dumas & Jane Birkin met on a plane & began to discuss the lack of a leather bag that suited Birkin's needs.Dumas sketched out the design that would become the iconic carry-on.' khaleejtimes.com/lifestyle/birk…

'Of her own mother, she says: “She cried all the time until she died. The fact that she didn’t have any more children,and that I didn’t have any, hurt her.” Fakambi saw things differently.‘Well, no,you don’t have to have children.’ My sister has children.' theguardian.com/global-develop…

'If you don't fight your demons, they will raise your children.'

Growth lives where comfort ends.

It takes love and grace to be and stay soft with someone different from you.

'When you are not fed Love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives'. ~T. Church

Heartsease; when you siezed Struggling to belong to hearts that were never ready to hold you.

'So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'

'I hate to admit this: I thought marriage might improve us, it did not, but for the sake of peace in our marriage, I had to let go of ideas that I could control parts of Paul or fix him... So, I suppose, in a way, it did improve us.' cbc.ca/radio/nowornev…

'As feminists,we can't champion progressive laws&call out external injustices,while failing to uphold those same principles in our structures. Its deeply hypocritical to demand accountability from the state while internally perpetuating harmful practices.' allafrica.com/stories/202509…

'There is not enough local capacity to process all of the country's harvest. The reduction in demand has led to a collapse in the price of shea nuts, which in turn has meant that the income from their work is no longer enough for the women to live on.' bbc.com/news/articles/…

'Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband...' ~Isaiah 54:1

The one that feeds you, has power to starve you.

Enjoying the passage of time...

Made perfect in weakness, A strength that comes through surrender... We gain by letting go.🤲

'I didn't consider myself a feminist, because the men in my life are suffering the same kinds of oppression as I was.' ~B. Reid RIP

Some losses don't make sense. They just change you... albeit set you free...